Bodies previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, did not die in a single dramatic event
Archaeologist sailing like a Viking makes unexpected discoveries: Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia, and took routes farther from land
A special issue in “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B” (2025) reframes the origins of domestication
Disabilities in the late Middle Ages: the skeleton of a man with a severe dislocated fracture of the knee, found in a cemetery in Lund, Sweden
Dating of Schöningen spears revised to 200,000 years; world’s oldest complete wooden hunting weapons are 100,000 years younger than previously claimed
Diversity Statistics of Onomastic Data Reveal Social Patterns in Hebrew Kingdoms of the Iron Age; a new study published in PNAS
18th century Austrian mummy of Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg found to be exceptionally well preserved, thanks to unusual embalming method
The project “Visual Analytics for Images from Colonial Contexts” (VABiKo): an image archive on former German colonies to be made accessible with Artificial Intelligence
Coastal heritage is globally threatened by climate change, according to a new study published in PNAS Nexus
Women from Bronze Age Nubia already carried heavy loads on their heads, according to a new study in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology